May 2012 - SFD-discuss - lists.mailman3.com

SFI President speaking at GNOME.Asia Summit in Bangalore
by Frederic Muller - SFI Sept. 4, 2012

Sept. 4, 2012

Dear all, Considering we have had a lot of teams in India in the past years I will be traveling to Bangalore, India and attend the GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 [1]. I intend to talk about why Software Freedom matters, explain a few more things about licensing (based on discussion I have had on IRC with some Indian team leaders), Free Software and Open Source and hopefully run a round table discussion with potential team leaders for 2011. The main motivation has been that for the first time SFI founder, VP and treasurer and I met in 2010 for the 1st time after 3 full years of collaboration, and a lot of things came out of it. I believe getting a chance to sit together and discuss various strategies, event organization and road blocks can be very beneficial for the team leaders who could attend. Looking forward to meeting some of you in person, and hopefully the SFI board will be able to attend other FOSS conferences in the upcoming months in different areas and engage into face to face communication with more team leaders. Thank you very much for your continuous efforts to celebrate software freedom. Kind regards, Frederic Muller SFI President

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SFD 2012 countdown available for use and translation
by Frederic Muller - SFI June 1, 2012

June 1, 2012

Dear all, First I'm also including the sfd-discuss list as I am not sure last year countdown translators were later added to the localization list. The SFD countdown is actually ready for usage in English event though it will only start to count down from 99 days (in 7 days). We are therefore informing translators of 2011 and also people willing to add a new language that translation can start right now. All the instructions are available on the wiki at this page: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown For those who already want to add the countdown on their page/blog/website the code is also the same as last year (we've chosen a smaller size image this year) and has the same support for time zones. So if for example you're living in Paris (GMT+2/UTC+2 that would be) then the code to add is: <a href="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/"><img src="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/countdown/banner1-UTC+2-en.png" border="0" width="160" height="90" alt="Celebrate SFD with us on September 15!"></a> Of course you can also run the code from your website if you want and customize it to your liking. Full code available here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/code and you'll need to add a cron job to run it every 15 minutes if you want to support all time zones. Else every day at 1am is probably fine. Thank you. Fred

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Call for proposals to host SFD Summit 2012
by Frederic Muller - SFI May 24, 2012

May 24, 2012

Dear all, Digital Freedom International (Aka Software Freedom International) is proud to announce it will start co-organizing Software Freedom Days under the name of SFD Summit with one local team each year starting this year, and therefore we are inviting local organizers to submit proposals to host our upcoming and first SFD Summit around September 15th 2012. The purpose of co-organizing such an event is to raise the profile of our celebrations while bringing a public space for discussions about the future of our movement. Over the past two years DFI/SFI has been through important changes in its governance such as expending community involvement through various committees, tightening our budget to remain cash positive, surveying SFD organizers and enhancing the team pack to enable teams to reuse the materials they receive, just to name a few of our efforts. It is now time to raise collaboration efficiency by getting together! While this will be the first occurrence of a SFD Summit we are still very open on the details and expect proposals to enhance our views on the matter. Our current vision is to initially organize a great local SFD bringing in international speakers and attracting both sponsors and media attention, thus boosting the reputation and influence of the selected local organizer. Furthermore an extra day or two should be planned to work on the year ahead, programs and actions which could be run under the DFI umbrella and status updates on ongoing activities such as software development, infrastructure, marketing and fund raising campaigns. If you are interested in hosting the upcoming SFD Summit in September 2012 please submit a formal proposal to board (at) softwarefreedomday (dot) org before July 1, 2012 Sunday UTC 2359. The proposal should address all of the relevant topics listed below: - Introduction of the country / city / organizer - why is this a good choice? - Recommended venues and logistics - Internet access - Accommodation choices - Local 1 day tour - Local community / government / industry support - Detail budget estimation and potential local sponsors The event is recommended to run for at least 2 days on 15 and 16, September 2012, with a combination of parallel tracks (at least 2 tracks). The planning sessions for SFD contributors should not conflict with other SFD sessions. Other key points which will be taken into account when choosing a proposal, are listed on the Requirement List page a thttp://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SfdSummit/RequirementList . Please check it out when putting together your proposal and feel free to contact sfd-discuss mailing list (or the board) if you have any further question. Also note that all profits from the summit will go to the DFI to further help our actions. We are looking forward to hearing from you soon! Digital Freedom International

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Illegal Map of India on the DFI website
by Manmohan Brahma May 21, 2012

May 21, 2012

Hi Webmaster / Webadmin DFI. I was just looking through the SFD Website. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2011 Suddenly I noticed that the border marking of India are different as per your map. To me it seems to be a serious offence and request you to change the website as per original google maps. Map as per SFD website. Map as per http://maps.google.co.in/ With thanks and regards, Manmohan Brahma India

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Celebrate Free Culture with us on May 19th 2012
by Frederic Muller - SFI May 11, 2012

May 11, 2012

Dear all, It is with great pleasure that we are announcing a new celebration in the lines of Software Freedom Day focusing on Free Culture. Over the years SFD gradually promoted Free Culture next to Software Freedom and we believe it is now time to have a specific event for Free Culture. Why is that so you may ask? We feel for starter that the audience and participants are quite a different audience from the people interested in software. In fact artists from the Free Culture movement often use proprietary software for plenty of reasons and wouldn't feel compelled to participate in SFD (or event know about it). Then the format should probably be different. While SFD tries to showcase Free Software and explains all the great things you could do with it, a day to celebrate Free Culture should definitely showcase Free Culture work, that is: - exhibitions - concerts - movie projections - surely more What we have envisioned is a day where all the Free Culture artists around the world could walk in the street and play, act or showcase their work and explain to people what Free Culture is and why they have chosen to contribute to the movement. Of course there could also be some amount of discussions and debates, but we should definitely stay away from long presentations and make it a real festival where the general public would come and simply enjoy the show while learning about those artists. The side idea is also to give free culture artists one international day where they can unite and make themselves heard all together. We are seeing way too many attacks on culture these days with copyright extensions and abuse of consumer rights of fair use, or lobbyists trying to lock away public funded work for example. So 2012 will be the first year and we will start contacting various Free Culture supporting organizations to get their support. In the meantime we have launched the Culture Freedom Day website at http://www.culturefreedomday.org and hopefully should have the registration and the wiki up and running fairly soon. So if you have any connections with Free Culture Artists, Art schools or universities, art galleries, pubs that organize live music, restaurant which do photo/painting exhibitions maybe you should talk to them to see how they feel about organizing a CFD event. Discussion about CFD will be happening on the CFD forum at http://www.culturefreedomday.org/forum and we also have an IRC channel on Freenode @ #cfday for the geeks among us. So thank you all to spread the word, 'identi.cate', twit, blog and tell your family and friends! ----------- Digital Freedom International (newly renamed to encompass our new activities) PS: and SFD will still happen on September 15th 2012!

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FOSS in Agriculture Blog Post on Australian Science
by Sridhar Gutam May 11, 2012

May 11, 2012

Dear All, Thanks for all suggestions for the FOSS in Agriculture logo. I tried to create one with suggestions using GIMP but I could not do it. Véronique Fritière had sent me his creations and I had used them in my blog post. Here is the title of that blog 'Sensitizing National Agricultural Research System on Free Open Source Software' and it available at < http://www.australianscience.com.au/news/sensitizing-national-agricultural-… > It may of some interest to you. I would like to thank Véronique Fritière for sharing FOSS in Agriculture images. Today I have got mail from Pravin that he would help me in creation of logo. You are all needed to take forward FOSS in Agriculture. You may see some of the initiatives here at the following urls. https://sites.google.com/site/fskiard/ https://www.facebook.com/FSKIARD https://www.facebook.com/groups/fridayfoss/ Thanks & Regards Sridhar __________________________________________________________ Sridhar Gutam PhD, ARS, Patent Laws (NALSAR), IP & Biotech. (WIPO) Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology) Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture <http://www.cishlko.org> Rehmankhera, Kakori Post Lucknow 227107, Uttar Pradesh, India Phone: +91-522-2841022/23/24; Fax: +91-522-2841025 Mobile:+91-9005760036/8005346136 Publications: http://works.bepress.com/sridhar_gutam/ <https://www.facebook.com/gutamsridhar> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/sridhargutam> <http://twitter.com/gutam2000><http://works.bepress.com/sridhar_gutam/rss.html>

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FOSS in Agriculture
by Sridhar Gutam May 7, 2012

May 7, 2012

Dear All, I am attaching a logo which I have made sourcing from web for the theme 'FOSS in Agriculture'. I wish to know whether the logo gives correct meaning?? Comment please. Thanks & Regards Sridhar __________________________________________________________ Sridhar Gutam PhD, ARS, Patent Laws (NALSAR), IP & Biotech. (WIPO) Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology) Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture Rehmankhera, Kakori Post Lucknow 227107, Uttar Pradesh, India Phone: +91-522-2841022/23/24; Fax: +91-522-2841025 Mobile:+91-9005760036/8005346136 Publications: http://works.bepress.com/sridhar_gutam/

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